Important Quotations to Instruct and Inspire

“I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief. If the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!” ~Frederick Douglass (abolitionist leader and escaped former slave in speech before the Massachusetts Antislavery Society entitled “What the Black Man Wants.” April 1865)